Inflammation in Chronic Disease: Cause, Consequence, or Both?

Today we’re joined by Paul Marvar, PhD, associate professor, in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences here at GW. We’re going to discuss the GW Biomedical Cross-disciplinary Seminar Series, a new annual lecture series co-organized by Dr. Marvar and Leigh Frame, PhD, MHS, program director, Integrative Medicine, executive director of the GW Office of Integrative Medicine and Health, and co-host of this podcast. Focused on "Inflammation in Chronic Disease: Cause, Consequence, or Both?" the seminar series will address both the treatment and prevention of chronic inflammatory diseases (CIDs). The goal is to promote networking and collaboration on translational health among researchers, health care providers, and policy makers from different disciplines to shift the paradigm—from seeking a cure to developing a strategy of prevention. The Seminar topics are: ○ Cancer and inflammation ○ Genomics and inflammation ○ COVID-19 and inflammation ○ Bioinformatics and inflammation ○ Precision medicine and inflammation ○ Cardiometabolic disease and inflammation ○ Neuropsychiatric disease and inflammation ○ Treatment approaches and inflammation Join us for this free online lecture series: https://bit.ly/3gvz1JW ◘ Related Content Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0675-0 The Growing Crisis of Chronic Disease in the United States https://www.fightchronicdisease.org/sites/default/files/docs/GrowingCrisisofChronicDiseaseintheUSfactsheet_81009.pdf WHO | Chronic and noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors https://www.who.int/ncds/en/ Chronic inflammatory systemic diseases: An evolutionary trade-off between acutely beneficial but chronically harmful programs https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26817483 ◘ Transcript https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/transcript-inflammation-chronic-disease-cause-both-gw-office-of/?published=t ◘ This podcast features the song “Follow Your Dreams” (freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Ho…ur_Dreams_1918) by Scott Holmes, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (01https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) license. ◘ Disclaimer: The content and information shared in GW Integrative Medicine is for educational purposes only and should not be taken as medical advice. The views and opinions expressed in GW Integrative Medicine represent the opinions of the host(s) and their guest(s). For medical advice, diagnosis, and/or treatment, please consult a medical professional.